Taylor Allderdice High School

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Type Public high school Phone +1 412-422-4800 District Pittsburgh Public Schools		Team name Dragons Mascot Dragon Colors Black, White, Green

Motto "Know Something, Do Something, Be Something." School district Pittsburgh Public Schools Principal Melissa Friez (since July 2009) Enrollment 1,470 as of October 2016 Address 2409 Shady Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA Similar Obama Academy, Millianes School, Pittsburgh Phillips K‑5 Elementa, Central Catholic High Sch, School Manage Profiles Facebook Twitter

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Taylor Allderdice High School is a public high school located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The school opened in 1927 and was named for industrialist and Squirrel Hill resident Taylor Allderdice, who was a member of the city's first school board and president of National Tube Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corporation.

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Feeder district

Allderdice's feeder district includes all or parts of the Glen Hazel, Hays, Hazelwood, Homewood, Greenfield, Lincoln Place, New Homestead, Point Breeze, Regent Square, South Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, and Swisshelm Park neighborhoods. Students from other Pittsburgh neighborhoods and the borough of Mount Oliver may also attend Allderdice through the pre-engineering magnet program; the Chinese magnet program, as Allderdice is the only district school to offer Chinese; or under the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Recognition

1994 - designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education

1995 - designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education

1996 - designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education

2005 - ranked number 1,061 on the list of top performing U.S. high schools by Newsweek

2007 - ranked number 1,183 on the list of top performing U.S. high schools by Newsweek

2009 - ranked number 40 in Western Pennsylvania on the list of highest scoring juniors on the PSSA for a three-year period

2009 - awarded Silver Medal by U.S. News & World Report in their "Best High Schools" issue

2010 - ranked number 1,538 on the list of top performing U.S. high schools by Newsweek

Enrollment

As of October 2016

The Foreword

The Foreword, Allderdice's student newspaper, began with its first published issue on April 1, 1927, as a three-column-wide subscription newspaper. It publishes an edition every five to six weeks during the school year. It is supported solely by advertising sales and is distributed at no cost to students, faculty, parents, and members the local community. The newspaper's namesake is a play on words of Forward Avenue, the street located on the building's south side.

In popular culture

In 2012, rapper Wiz Khalifa released Taylor Allderdice, a mixtape named for his alma mater.

References

Taylor Allderdice High School Wikipedia

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